Arch. Myriam B. Mahiques Curriculum Vitae

Thursday, October 6, 2011

House in La Boca, Buenos Aires. Casa en la Boca.

I took this picture in 2002, walking in the neighborhood of La Boca, Buenos Aires. It was originally built by Italian immigrants, with the materials and paintings they could take from the ships. This is one of those old houses. Now, it's a memory for me, so I like to show it as a painting. It's nice to see how the tree branches and the lamp posts are in equilibrium with the horizontal lines of the metal sheets. Verticality against horizontality.Coming back to my previous post Is photography a representational art? one could ask if, there was need for me to touch the original photograph, if this kind of ¨painting¨ is better than my picture. In this case, I should say, yes, this version is better, if it shows my objectives, the emphasis on textures and yuxtaposition of lines. The picture was taken with one of the first digital cameras and did not reflect what I wanted. The original was representational for the house, but not for my intentions.

TRANSLATOR

A Woman Architect's Sensibility

After many years of profession, an architect feels the emotion for even small every-day things that contain Art, it's like "watching beyond" them. I'm not a professional photographer, not a renown artist, but a woman architect who loves her career and produces images that move her sensibility, and maybe others' as well. In the label ¨Exercises with form and color¨ you will find some explanations of processes and perception of the images.

About Me

Myriam B. Mahiques is an architect, graduated from Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires (FADU) in 1986. She has collaborated in many Studios and Construction firms, developed projects and constructions as independent professional, also competitions and exhibitions in the area of Architecture and painting. In the Academy she has been chief of practical exercises at the chairs of architectural design Goldemberg and since 2002 to 2004 in Grinberg chair. She has been a researcher for the Institute EFUR (Function of Urban Evolution); researcher for FOINDI (FADU), unit “Technology for the Megalopolis” and “Technology in primitive man”. In 2001 she was assigned the fellowship NuevaTec, from the Ministry of Education and Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urbanism, to investigate the subject “ Urban Morphology and Fractal Design”. Currently she is a senior researcher in the same field and is Ad honorem researcher at the Laboratory of mathematics and design, Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urbanism of Buenos Aires. She is Associated Editor of World Architecture.org and has many publications and presentations in national and international symposiums.